‘Qualified immunity’ is a genuine piece of judicial activism, a doctrine created from thin air by the Supreme Court, granting almost limitless immunity for almost anything police officers do. It’s why lawsuits over most of the worst atrocities by American police get tossed from court.

So it’s news when a court notices that a cop’s done something so outrageous that a lawsuit will be allowed.

The Pentagon lied and people died — an ordinary day, in other words.

Instead of taking constant screenshots by default, it’ll take constant screenshots only for used dumb enough to opt-in, and instead of storing everything in a plain text user-accessible and easily-hackable database, it’ll have some level of encryption, probably making it accessible only to Microsoft, cops, and better hackers.

For me, the issue isn’t even in the tech; it’s in the company. Microsoft produces usually-functional but frustrating software, and has a long track record of tactics that prove it’s not trustworthy. The only people who’d opt-in to this software from this company are people who don’t know much about this company.

That’s what we’ve been saying for 30+ years, so why stop now?

And as always always always happens in cases like this, there’s no indication that the officers involved were disciplined in any way.

And they’ll win if there’s any justice, but we all know that’s a huge ‘if’.

Biden then said, “And what happened was, Barack said to me, ‘Go to Detroit, and help fix it.’" This is way too deep in the nettles for me to remember or even google; do you have any idea whether that trip to Detroit was about the pandemic, or (like TBD seems to think) about the recession?

Thank goodness for the statute of limitations, man.

Astonishingly, the attacks of 9/11 had little effect on the Saudi approach to religious extremism, as diplomats and intelligence officials have attested. What finally changed royal minds was the experience of suffering an attack on Saudi soil. In May 2003, gunmen and suicide bombers struck three residential compounds in Riyadh, killing 39 people. The authorities attributed the attacks to al-Qaeda, and cooperation with the U.S. improved quickly and dramatically.

Suspicion: The attack was actually planned and/or executed by the CIA or some US agency you’ve never heard of. RIP, 39 people, but America got the policy cooperation it wanted.

And the Japanese know a thing or two about such things.

Grazi.

Serious question, what’s the ‘A’ stand for?

Keanu Reeves as Hot Jesus?

Agreed.

Saying it twice doesn’t make it true. You’re a Fox-deluded fool.

Quantum physics makes my uneducated head hurt, but until opening the door I never know whether there’s aspirin in the medicine cabinet.

Do they not teach government and civics in schools any more?

No, they do not. In most American school districts, civics classes are no longer part of the curriculum.

Authorities are still working to identify the perpetrators, and have not made any arrests.

Yeah, I’m sure the authorities are up all night, doggedly investigating.

OMG, man, until you made me look closer I thought it was three photos of the same guy.

This is bullshit both-sidesism, and I often wonder what motivates such falsehoods.

Biden is not an MLK-level speaker, but he’s at least as coherently as an average American. Trump is not capable of speaking three consecutive sentences that make sense, nor four on even the same topic before his mind wanders away.